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Sunday Shuffle #450

Here I am at another anniversary-type number for the Sunday Shuffle. Hard to believe I've gotten up this high and that I've been doing this for over a decade. I've also been thinking I might get to here and then discontinue the shuffle, but now that I'm here...I at least want to hit 500, so I'll hang in for another year or so. I know a blog is such an old-fashioned thing at this point, but I am about to turn 46...you can draw your own conclusions.

To celebrate, I am not only going to run for 20 songs today, but I've also changed the theme of my blog. I'd had the previous theme for a very long time and it felt like time for a change. It's currently a rainy early spring day (and I'm on spring break), so listening to some music and doing some reading sounds like the right thing to do.

As always on these anniversary episodes, here's the history of the Sunday Shuffle...

#1 - 8/27/06
#50 - 8/19/07
#100 - 7/27/08
#150 - 9/9/09
#200 - 10/17/10
#250 - 10/16/11
#300 - 9/30/12
#350 - 11/30/14
#400 - 2/14/16

With all of that out of the way, here's today's twenty...

1. Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk/The New Pornographers (18) - last played on 6/14/15
2. Green Gardens, Cold Montreal/Sloan (28) - last played on 11/18/16
3. If You Gotta Leave/Reigning Sound (8) - last played on 2/11/17
4. Try To Make It/Sloan (32) - last played on 11/17/16
5. Wanted For Life/David Byrne & Brian Eno (7) - last played on 4/4/15
6. Get Back/The Beatles (4) - last played on 6/23/13
7. Doors Unlocked And Open/Death Cab For Cutie (11) - last played on 8/15/14
8. Moon Over Goldsboro/The Mountain Goats (2) - last played on 4/11/15
9. On The One Too Many's/Nude Beach (16) - last played on 3/25/17
10. Let It Ride/Ryan Adams (13) - last played on 2/11/17
11. Chester The Molester/Sloan (20) - last played on 11/14/16
12. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart/Al Green (9) - last played on 2/23/14
13. Run My Heart/Twin Shadow (7) - last played on 12/20/12
14. Slow Fade/Teenage Fanclub (14) - last played on 10/19/16
15. Yesterday/The Beatles (5) - last played on 2/12/17
16. Comfort/Michael Penn (33) - last played on 1/18/15
17. Ad Infinitum, Pt. 1/Telekinesis (15) - last played on 11/17/16
18. 3000 Flowers/Destroyer (9) - last played on 10/11/15
19. Where Was My Brain/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (26) - last played on 3/19/17
20. I Can't Find My Way Home/Teenage Fanclub (12) - last played on 10/22/16

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